Wawel: Kings, Cathedrals and Legends

The stops, in walking order

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   Stop 1: Bazylika archikatedralna Świętych Stanisława i Wacława

   ~15 min here

   Wawel Cathedral is the great church before you, dedicated to Saints Stanislaus and Wenceslaus.

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   Stop 2: Wieża Duńska

   ~3 min here

   Wieża Duńska, the Danish Tower, rises beside the eastern wing of Wawel Royal Castle as one of its four residential towers.

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   Stop 3: Skarbiec Koronny

   ~1 hr here

   Inside Wawel Royal Castle, the Crown Treasury is an exhibition of objects left by Poland’s ruling dynasties.

4. 4

   

   Stop 4: Zamek Wawel

   ~3 min here

   Wawel Castle is the fortified royal residence rising on Wawel Hill above the Vistula in Kraków.

5. 5

   

   Stop 5: Krypta Wieszczów Narodowych na Wawelu

   ~3 min here

   This is the National Bards’ Crypt, a chamber beneath Wawel Cathedral that holds the graves of the Romantic poets Adam Mickiewicz and Juliusz Słowacki.

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   Stop 6: Krypta św. Leonarda

   ~3 min here

   St Leonard’s Crypt lies beneath Wawel Cathedral: a Romanesque burial chamber dating from the turn of the eleventh and twelfth centuries, and a surviving part of the earlier Hermanowska Cathedral.

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   Stop 7: Brama Wazów

   ~3 min here

   Brama Wazów is the oldest of the three gateways leading onto Wawel Hill.

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   Stop 8: Brama Herbowa

   ~3 min here

   Brama Herbowa is an entrance gate to Wawel Hill, and its heraldic decoration gives the structure its character.

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   Stop 9: Smok Wawelski

   ~3 min here

   Smok Wawelski is the bronze dragon sculpture beside the exit from the Dragon’s Den, at the foot of Wawel Hill.

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